If you do not impose a site-specific naming convention for Workspace
items (queries, reports, charts, and so on), users and groups, and other
stateless records, it is possible to have different objects with the same
name.
For example, duplicate names can occur when user administrators at two
sites within a clan add the same user name within a synchronization cycle.
In this case, after the replicas are synchronized, two users have the same
name.
Internally,
Rational® ClearQuest® ensures
that records and Workspace names are unique:
- For record types that use states, Rational ClearQuest uses
database ID numbers to ensure uniqueness.
- For stateless record types (including users and groups), Rational ClearQuest uses
unique keys and stores the name of the originating site, or keysite.
- For Workspace items, Rational ClearQuest stores
the name of the originating site, or keysite, and the name of the Workspace
item.